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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

that's the problem with a place like ours.  Our land is naturally terraced 
and has four levels.  Each level seems to have its own micro-climate and the 
bottomland has a season stream and a year round stream.  You wouldn't think 
some of the plants would do well here that do on the bottomland or that do 
well on the west facing slopes.

Now, a real wonder is that I brought redwood trees with me.  They LOVE it 
and have grown over a foot a year!  Absolutely should not do that!  Same 
with my native rhodies and azaleas from the coast.  I even have a couple of 
native grasses from the coast (I dead head them so they won't spread since 
they unaccountably seem to love  it here, go figure!).

the pampus grass is spread by crazy people who take the plumes home and use 
them for decorations.  It is all up and down the coast highways and the 
inland highways.  Saw some when we went up to Crater Lake, also.  A road 
crew was out digging it up.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Jones" <billj AT harborside.com>
> Yeah, it's hard for me to keep track of which weed goes with which form
> of agriculture.   I remembered almost as soon as I sent it, that star
> thistle is a problem associated with ranching; the alfalfa people have
> their other weeds represented on the list.  But then, no one ever
> _wanted_ to grow star thistle, that I know of.  I'll bet that none of
> the "invasive" plants that I've praised would survive the summer unaided
> at your place, unless you have a stream bed for them.
> >
> Did someone plant the pampas grass at your site?  It's shocking to me
> that it's still sold at nurseries.  It must be one of their big money
> makers.  The central coast of California is now overwhelmed by it, but I
> didn't think it had reached too far inland as a weed.  For some reason
> it doesn't sprout from seed where I live very readily, but I may have
> noticed a few at the immediate coast.  Can you imagine planting that BS
> over acacia (I was told by some pampas zombs at a local nursery, that
> because acacia does too well here, I'm not "allowed" to plant it)?
> There's no record of acacia ever sprouting from seed here, but some
> influential pundit down in Monterey must have made a pronouncement.